Hi all! We had a meeting planning the future of the Effective Altruism Kansas City group. We discussed: * Group values and goals * What we as a (currently small) local group could do to maximize our positive impact * Communication structure for internal and external communications, individual responsibilities *...
Intro & overview This is a brief overview of an "Introduction to 80,000 Hours" workshop written by fellow LessWronger Bae's Theorem. It's to the point - a set of slides & an outline going over 80k hours' key points and core advice, then helping attendees apply it first to an...
What the workshop is & a brief overview Hi all! This is my first post on LessWrong, but I'll be posting here more often with conversation notes & resources from the Effective Altruism Kansas City meetup group. This workshop was an experiment to give participants an intellectual & intuitive understanding...
Hi all!
We had a meeting planning the future of the Effective Altruism Kansas City group. We discussed:
Some discussion on each below.
Up to this point, we've only really done discussion groups and a few workshops - nothing in particular we did really involved action on behalf of the group (with the exception of we had at least one person sign up for the GWWC pledge). People have... (read 473 more words →)
This is a brief overview of an "Introduction to 80,000 Hours" workshop written by fellow LessWronger Bae's Theorem. It's to the point - a set of slides & an outline going over 80k hours' key points and core advice, then helping attendees apply it first to an outside party, then to themselves.
You can find the 15-slide presentation here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1raV5fr7HryQ-3tEskHgfemje2SlSgtLCESo-mqZ2nVo/edit#slide=id.p
The (revised) article that Bae's Theorem based the content off of can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1clHJQaoAt9YaguMZFH6gkDSPTsolEylME92X2dBnaWk/edit This document also includes the 1-page handout he used in the workshop for easy reference during the activities.
Hi all! This is my first post on LessWrong, but I'll be posting here more often with conversation notes & resources from the Effective Altruism Kansas City meetup group.
This workshop was an experiment to give participants an intellectual & intuitive understanding of how EAs typically prioritize between charities - the QALY (and DALY). Participants were told that they're the board for the Hypothetical Foundation and needed to choose a charity to fund between three options to best serve the residents of Hypothetical Town. Discussion is guided from initial impressions, to how to quantify well-being, to how to estimate DALYs, and finally, how to use DALYs... (read 857 more words →)
Had a similar experience - pretty disappointing tbh